Friends and chilly winters

this is my first blog from home,and i am here with a friend who is calling me lukka (vella in IITB lingo)...he is pondering right now on marriage proposals advertisements .A few years early though his adventures.
i read three books during my stay till now
1.made in japan-akoi morita
2.bridge across forever-richard bach
3.alexander-the ends of the earth by valerio manfredi

funny thing about the third book i once told my friend when we were parting after 12th that if he calls me i will follow him to the ends of this earth.
meanwhile i wait for his call tsunami has hit india and south east asia ...
everything in the world is so transient and so fickle
so diverse but united
varun signing out 4om chandigarh

The return of ...

Home Coming
Tommorow i leave for home ,with hope that i reach home.Journey's are like life ,they are uncertain..Everytime i embark on the journey home,i don't know whether i will be back again .I don't know why but i feel out of place everytime i go home,as if its not mine.It is abtract unclear why i feel this, but i avoid going home.........

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life is ?????
here it goes zoom..........
i am back to reading again yuppie ,semester project is over finallyoh it was killing me,all the fumes from the soldering,connecting wires goosh!!
i read hemingway during the last week,this week i am back again to fininsh my business with aristotle and kant.
something i require to exercise
Rhetoric is useful (1) because things that are true and things that
are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites,
so that if the decisions of judges are not what they ought to be,
the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves, and they must be
blamed accordingly.

Moreover, (2) before some audiences not even the
possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we
say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies
instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct. Here,
then, we must use, as our modes of persuasion and argument, notions
possessed by everybody, as we observed in the Topics when dealing
with the way to handle a popular audience.

Further, (3) we must be
able to employ persuasion, just as strict reasoning can be employed,
on opposite sides of a question, not in order that we may in practice
employ it in both ways (for we must not make people believe what is
wrong), but in order that we may see clearly what the facts are, and
that, if another man argues unfairly, we on our part may be able to
confute him. No other of the arts draws opposite conclusions: dialectic
and rhetoric alone do this. Both these arts draw opposite conclusions
impartially. Nevertheless, the underlying facts do not lend themselves
equally well to the contrary views. No; things that are true and things
that are better are, by their nature, practically always easier to
prove and easier to believe in.

Again, (4) it is absurd to hold that
a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his
limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason,
when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being
than the use of his limbs. And if it be objected that one who uses
such power of speech unjustly might do great harm, that is a charge
which may be made in common against all good things except virtue,
and above all against the things that are most useful, as strength,
health, wealth, generalship. A man can confer the greatest of benefits
by a right use of these, and inflict the greatest of injuries by using
them wrongly.

these great words describe something i considered not necessary though after reading ,i inculcated them into my memory

Persuasion

During my life i have learnt that to persuade someone is among the most ironic thing to do.I believe in patterns and believe to give logic to most vague of entitites.Madness has been associated with this phenomenon ,but the plebian doesn't understand the non trivialities of life.The idea of being sane is relative to the times we have lived.So how do we persuade someone to buy or sell, to maintain relationships,to develop new ones,what is the strategy.
personally i have ,analysed everything a person does during my first meeting,from the way of standing ..to the way of thinking .the way the person smiles ,which hand he prefers.... ,i am in habit of dissecting personalities.But after analysis of so many varied personalities ,i realise we act differently to situations,our past experiences,our mentors ,our abilties ot limit plays an important role .That there is no truth,except of what we make ourselves believe .
and that there is no analysis of someone ,unless i am analysing my self

meanwhile exams are happening thing on the block

compilers
uml

Rhetoric

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case
the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other
art. Every other art can instruct or persuade about its own particular
subject-matter; for instance, medicine about what is healthy and unhealthy,
geometry about the properties of magnitudes, arithmetic about numbers,
and the same is true of the other arts and sciences. But rhetoric
we look upon as the power of observing the means of persuasion on
almost any subject presented to us; and that is why we say that, in
its technical character, it is not concerned with any special or definite
class of subjects.

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man
who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able
(1) to
reason logically,
(2) to understand human character and goodness in
their various forms, and
(3) to understand the emotions-that is, to
name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which
they are excited. It thus appears that rhetoric is an offshoot of
dialectic and also of ethical studies. Ethical studies may fairly
be called political; and for this reason rhetoric masquerades as political
science, and the professors of it as political experts-sometimes from
want of education, sometimes from ostentation, sometimes owing to
other human failings. As a matter of fact, it is a branch of dialectic
and similar to it, as we said at the outset. Neither rhetoric nor
dialectic is the scientific study of any one separate subject: both
are faculties for providing arguments. This is perhaps a sufficient
account of their scope and of how they are related to each other.

16th november-Dare you to move

well as usually i overslept, and now have a long night ahead.Welcome to existence
life like that ,sometimes indulging in our fantasies othertimes facing the crude realities of life.Do i dare to move!
everybody is haunted by their past some more than others but we have to keep feeding the past for it to live in the present.Will i stop feeding the past and face the present. i guess we will know in the future
......... of a song i am listening to....
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistence
The tension is here
Between who you are and you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

Nostalgia

Life has many ways of putting us in situations, we cannot find solutions to.In life i rarely came across something i cannot do, that's cause i am self assured, bold in your face, take everything at its face value.....you must be thinking what a narcissist this person is.
well we human beings are narcissists sadist masochist etc and i feel no shame in acknowledging it.
My real fears come from the my dreams,i used to like a girl long time ago.Crush love i don't really know, all i know she still comes in my dreams ...........
and all my fears come to life, i am unable to face her and even if i gather the courage she ignores me.
Dreams have something to do with what we think in the day,they are a projection of our thoughts........
among the pleasant dreams i had were on 11th night i was dreaming of my friend and he called me as if he knew i was thinking of him.So cool na telephathy yoo babes........

To kill a mocking bird

The book starts with Scout Finch telling us of her's brother injured arm and her family history.She tells us of a Simon finch her earliest ancestor(here i thought oh! one of those stories where the person tries to glorify the past).oh Simon Finch was a fur trader who esablsed the Finch's landiing outside Maycomb Alabama that is where we are. Her father name is Atticus(he is a lawyer) and her' older brother's name is Jem.It is summer and their neighbor's nephew Dill has come to stay for the summer.
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The first few chapters of the book paints Maycomb as a quiet and idyllic town.The children play freely and the neighbours gossip rather harmlessly on the streets.these early chapters set the tone for the a town that is going to be exposed.The lazy rural facade will crumble an racism prejudice that are inherent in the minds of the citizens are exposed.
The book talks about many things among the concepts earliest met is about strength in the face of adversity.The high moral standards defines the character Cunnigham's ,Mrs.Dubrose are potraying.
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Scout gets in a fight at school with a boy who says that her father defends niggers. Scout tells Atticus about the fight and asks him what they boy meant. Atticus explains that he is defending Tom Robinson, a black man, and many in the town believe that he should not have taken the case. When someone at school makes a similar comment, Scout heeds her father's advice about fighting, and backs down.
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Christmas arrives, and so does Atticus' brother Jack. On Christmas day Jem and Scout receive air rifles as gifts. After opening presents, everyone goes to Finch's Landing to spend the rest of the day. Scout has to deal with her bratty cousin Francis for most of the day. After dinner Francis calls tells Scout that her father is a nigger lover. Although Scout has been good about fighting, Scout attacks him and demands he take it back. This brings the day to an abrupt end. Scout receives a spanking from her Uncle Jack. She explains to Jack why she started a fight with Francis, and he becomes more understanding.

That evening, Atticus talks to Jack about the case and all of the problems that may arise because of it.
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Dill's parents allow him to stay in Maycomb. One evening, the sheriff stops by the house with a group of men from town. Atticus talks with them and Scout tries to overhear. They talk about Tom Robinson's case and how Tom is being moved into the Maycomb jail.
Tired and upset by the verdict, everyone goes to bed. When the Finch family wakes up in the morning, food has been brought by many of the families in town. Atticus becomes upset and leaves the house.
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The whole town is gossiping about the case. The children talk to Miss Maudie about the case. They are very upset that Tom is going to jail and the town did nothing. But Miss Maudie points out that some people did what they could. She tells the children that Judge Taylor appointed Atticus for a reason; he knew that Atticus was the only lawyer in the town who would do his best to defend Tom.
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When the children leave Miss Maudie, they hear the newest bit of gossip. Bob Ewell ran into Atticus in town, spat upon him, and told him he would get revenge one way or another.
These become the hardest times for the family, Jem in particular. Scout, because of her young age can move on past the events of the trial. But as Jem gets older and wrestles with his maturing feelings and values, most of what has happened only angers and upsets him. When Scout goes to Jem for an explanation about her class discussion, Jem can only become angry. He is not angry because Scout is being inquisitive, he is angry because there are no easy answers to what Scout is asking and he is just as confused as she is.
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The ray of hope for the children comes earlier when they talk with Miss Maudie. Despite the seeming hopelessness of everything, Miss Maudie points out that many people were doing their best to help Tom Robinson. The children may feel alone, but as the gifts of food left at their house indicated, many people were always behind them.
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Helen ton's widow takes a job with Link Deas, Tom's former employer. After being harassed by the Ewell's on her walk to work, Helen has to take the long way to Link's house. When Link finds this out he goes to the Ewell' to threaten Bob. Later, Bob begins to follow Helen.
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One evening, while alone in his home, someone tries to break into Judge Taylor's house assuming it was empty for the evening. All signs point to Bob Ewell.

Due to last Halloween's pranks, the town organizes an evening at the high school for the children. Scout is recruited to be in the evening's pageant, as a ham hock.
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Although Jem and Scout could have died, the incident with Bob Ewell serves as a vindication for the Finch family and their values. Bob Ewell, who the town stands behind during Tom's trial, turns out to be a man so cowardly that he not only stalks Helen Robinson, he tries to kill two innocent children. And the man who comes to their rescue is none other than Boo Radley, a man whose self-imposed exile has made him the prime topic of gossip in Maycomb. It was Atticus and his children who understood these men no matter what the situation may point to. Although the town knew Bob Ewell to be trash, they would defend him over an innocent black man,prejudice so deeply wooled in the minds. It was Atticus who saw the truth and stood by that.Weird the way some would play black and some white others though grey left helpless by time and situation.
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As for Boo Radley, it was Scout, who points out that anyone who saw her walking Boo Radley back to his home would see a real gentleman. Not the man Stephanie Crawford claimed looked into her windows, but a man who came out of seclusion to save two children. We also now know that it had been Boo who was leaving the presents in the tree for Jem and Scout. He has been watching them for many years. Boo Radley is a sensitive and kind man who apparently has had quite an affinity for the children all these years.
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Throughout this entire ordeal, the Finch family has survived. Much has been heaped upon them the past months and years, but all have come out stronger for it, Jem and Scout in particular. They have gained a new sense of human nature and are better people because of it.
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best part
the one liner's
let the dead bury the dead..........

Neigbours bring in food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.Boo was our neighbour...........

other than that lots of idioms and allusions used in the text.

the Glass Ceiling

introduction varun khullar
studying in third year at IIITA- information technology
while in ocassional visits to my classrooom, i actually listen to what the teacher says(why you may ask?) .Realisation of the self contradictory nature of the teacher's pursuit of education is something which i bound to happen.Sometimes i feel the teachers are trying to convince themselves of the notion,that education is about attendance and writing whatever is asked in the half yearly events known as exams even though they think otherwise.
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The soporific phenomenon in al so evident in classes is a disgrace to the concept of learning academia established by socrates ,aristotle,dronacharya etc.Learning was instituted to produce sophists,critics and cynics which are far and few today.And by these words sophists critics and cynics i mean the meaning they carried in yesteyears not the present derogatory one produced by the same corrupted nature of education.What blasphemy is this that words such as cynic and critic are being used in defaming manner.Is this not a sign of of times and the there are no words in which to speak the truth without using them in derogatory sense. Is truth supposed to be bitter
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If this was the sole purpose of education then man would have been in stone age.We are a part of the evolution cycle,progress is not a measure of what has been done in the past but what can be done and has been done today.The books and the teachers cultivates someone else's opinion without any regard to the present scenario.The whole process started as exercise to observe and to extend the possibilties but has turned into a futile exercise of repetetion of facts.Encouragement for originality is a rarity and the whole concept of invention innovativeness etc has become as abstract phenomenon.Am i right in saying we are afraid to think about the possibilties.
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I have passed through under the nose of enough to realise when or not a teacher has not prepared for a class and some years ago i would have mocked them and made sure they do not sleep in the same class they are teaching.The monotonous soforific tone is enough for me. The purpose of education is long lost.
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But i now believe a educator is as good as his beliefs and ethics.If his priorities are mismatched with his or hers beliefs,then noble activity of education turns into consumption without responsibilty.This consumption of resources and wastage of time without giving consideration has transformed our esteemed varsities into future political institutions where the students engage in petty politics(have a look at allahabad universiy and other local universities you are living etc).This further retard the growth of mental and physical development of the person ,community,state,nation and the of the whole human community.
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Everything has turned into glass celing from which we may see the sky but cannot reach it,we can just look at it and wonder whether the story of Icarcus was true
and whether dedalaus was right in warning or whether icarcus was right in flying .
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A thought -
i must study politics and war that
my sons have the liberty to study mathematics and philosphy
so in turn their children can learn poetry,architecture tapestry and porcelain
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one hundred years of solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote one hundred year of solitude.
while reading the book i had a thought about the insomniacs- those who cannot sleep in simple terms.Let me englighten those of who are in ignorance about the book.
In the intial part of the story there is place called Macondo, a remote South American settlement.The settlers of Macondo suffer from insomnia and amnesia.
The idea of not sleeping is one thing,but if you tend to lose your saneness, forget who you are,forget whether a tree is a tree,you can very well imagine the consequences.On a more personal note,i think we tend to discount the times when we refuse to believe the first rhethoric of Aristotle, that an A is an A.

So Arcadio the first of insomniacs devises a way around it,he decides to first to label things with a chits ,writing the name of substance on a chit and sticking it on it.It doesn't stop there,then he decides to write pig on a pig ,tree on a tree, so that can remember in the case he forgets it.No, it is not the end but the beginning he further puts a billboard stating the use of the substance.Like coffee is mixed with milk to make coffee,this a ow, cow has to be milked everyday to produce milk which in turn has to be mixed with coffee and sugar to make coffee.Here i decide to take a break from the book and reflect on the ideas of Arcadio, whether necessity really reuires invention.
Does it show that humans have limited capacity of recollection if we think in different way altogether.
I think deeply about it,i think this is where the idea of a dictionary came ,what would you call something if you forgot what's its called.So we decide to group words collect words somewhere in order to name them when and where the need arises.
what an irony today we use dictionary to define out our vocabulary, rather us defining the meaning of words.We have become tools in the face of time,which are controlled by the predefined.I think if we forget everything we have to start all over again,what would we call an A if not an A.
But the basis the idea of idea cannot be regenerated but from the beginning,we would have to be taught about it what an idea means.

Sine Qua Non

the essential condition for life .. that is sine qua non
these days i ponder on the existence of life that surrounds us,we tend to loose interest in the very things that makes us able survive.I loose hope like every other person,miss the very semblance that i aspire for and covet.This is my sine qua non which makes me read words which i hardly understand but still plough through,i feel as though i am a ship that just moves thorough the ocean without ever paying attention to what's inside.In the same way i read words of thoughts that i don't hope to think about.
The existence that i am a part of drives my needs, whether it is to learn obscure language as latin,latin cause i feel it is rare as rare as truth is.Though we all think truth is present everywhere and the essence of every thing is the truth it is rare to see its presence in existence.In the same way i feel about latin the essence of western languages which every western language has its basis.
i wish to share my feelings
Writing with two hands makes me feel enlightened,it is takes a lot of out of me to change so drastically ,i am natural left handed but these days i prefer to write with my right hand.Why you may ask,i thought it is right to right with your right hand.Too many rights in a sentence!
It gives me the sine qua non of my life.
the essential condition ,without which not.It gives me hope that when we think there is nothing to interest you there is always something.It gives me reason to live.

Sands of Ammon

in sand will i find my destiny, compulsively i search myself for answers
the ideals on which i based my life seem to be lost
there is no virtue left ,i have no honesty left except my word.my word is my honor and that is what i live for...

learning the object oriented way

this is what i understand or i don't understand about object oriented programming
non computer geeks need not go further

what do we want from a system?
that it takes a given input and gives a output that is what a system is..
system : it must exist in time, space (don't know what einstein would say about that) well defined interface with rest of the universe

now a system may have other subsystems ...
now these subsystems interact among themselves in a well defined way.
good things we wantfrom a software

- satisfies all requirements quite broad for a defination
- should be usable and useul
- maintanence
-relaible
portable / scalable

problem is that a s/w system can never really model a real life system exactly
we can only come close to it
modular is a term used for procedural programming

we want cohesion to be maximum and interaction b/w systems mininmum


so we started with the feasibilty analysis


requirement nalysis
access permission read write etcwe require to demarcate who is reponsible for what work
goals are long term
objectives how to do it
keep taking notes during the interval
prepare a formal document get he document ratified
find what information is required what requires further elaboration
system development life cycle (SDLC)

.- feasibilty analysis
.- requirement analysis
.- specification details
.- design
.- code it
.- testing
.- deployment
models
waterfall - freeze each stage
spiral - limiited number of functionalties
coding design testing
add other functionalties

prototype - working small prototyp
polymorphism
20% code is comments


UML
unified modelling language
model - a list of must have
dialog functions of the systems
actors classes normally

amusing

lets study english grammar

noun can used as classes
noun can be describe by candidate classes
- relevant
- irrelevant
- fuzzy
... assumes that the correct document is complete and correct

a name of person place animal or thing
though it i does not work everywhere
but
ok
verb used it as function

what do we do about adjectives adverbs etc ......... is the question i have on my mind

nothing strict just a guideline

types of classes
parametrized class
interface classes
utility classes

we can ideify classes by other ways too
like using patterns
crc cards
use case driven
hash all of these


well this summary of my course
better blogging when my minors get over

the name of the rose

this is my first blog ,going by the rates i am reading i thought i might as well start to write something .cause all the ideas i have are just like pasing into oblivion .i started to write a book but my system got formatted and i lost all the files.I just remembered the cruel jokes
not a christian
so jesus couldn't save me
In order for the world to have a mirror it is necessary that the world have a form
o i ever be wise it would have been cause i had known to be severe,

sometimes in life we are in lost in learning curve trying to ostentatious ,i do smell the odourous distant way.
we had a dance party somehow i was lost in there ,it kinda weird , don't know where i am losing focus
otta do well this time.
this weird amusing the intricate feeling of love that i realised never truly existed in my heart.
today while walking through the slums , i felt as if one slum start and ended even before i could say contransmagnificandjewbangangtiality... and it suddenly hit me
i realised how some things end even before you start understanding them just like reading when you loose concentration and the words even though you read then it feels though you haven't read the lines.the verbosity takes you in someother direction ,in the same way the change in events makes us forget the previous events as though they didn't exist.

the previous moment
it felt thogh was never there
passes with no memory
may it ain't that divine
but its atleast mine

then the colony of slums ended without being noticed as if they didn't exist...
And i came across a market,all myraid objects being sold and being bought.The expressions of persuasion in the faces of the consumers and the buyers are so abstract but yet understandable.The way pathwalkers are attracted towards each other with a force as if kama(cupid) has struck a chord somewhere.And then came a solitary wall and i was lost in thought, a solitary wall to give shade and support to unknown stragers, it looked as if Atlas was holding the base of the world from falling the wall was the center of all activities on earth and then as though they didn't exist..By the side there was life in form of a cobbler working on a brown leather shoe,a juiceseller ,the lemonademan selling low quality marijuana and lost in though the scene disappeared from my eyes as though it didn't exist.
i reached a muslim cementery and my thought went to all those great kings of the past and their tombs of rest.i saw youngmen playing cards in cementary a young window with his child in sorrow, these contrasting faces of life are but captured in those sixty seconds when we decide to observe life.while returning i saw a cow grazing on the grass in the cementery giing no respect to the dead it was not more the cows grazing but young men playing cards as if it were a recreation park...
then i saw a political centre of a party unwillingly covered with flags and symbols of the party i felt as though the building was crying for help from these enroachments.. a temple next door the thing about allahabad the holy city is that it has a built temple every 10 yards of space.. and i went inside the temple ..


appropriateness of laughter:
this is the new idea i amuse myself with

etymology

The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where possible.
The branch of linguistics that deals with etymologies.

that is the definition you get from www.dictionary.com
how correct are dictionaries about words,diction of words are important not cause of esteem issues.But they cause misunderstandings.That is the essence of langauge then i think to remove discrepancies giving a proper channel to express our emotions, our thought, our fears.the need for a language i think i write cause i wish somewhere in my heart that i perish anytime soon i leave somepart of me in this world...
no i think i am writing cause i just want to write.. cause writing has nothing to do with thinking .Thoughts are like the creation of the synchronous variables of time
they have nothing to do with thinking or a mind, sometimes you are in such a flow that no word actually means anything to you ,there is just an inner peace that exists that you have to learn... have to experience.And then all darkness are gone from your mind many times i experienced such a feeling as i am going through now.

So what for are langauges ...
are they useful having so many of them they change with fashion, with emotions and with time.A langauge purely exist for the sole purpose of communication nothing less and nothing more anyone having some other use for a langauge please feel free to enlighten me
more on langauges and their essence soon

Leit Motif

David McClelland's 3-Need Theory
Achievement, Affiliation, Power

before we talk about the theory lets talk about motivation..
motivation
the reason to do ...intrisic or extrinsic
what ever be the reasons but its difficult to stop a motivated person ... there is no good or bad in the balance of life .. the feeling of schadenfreudo is prevalent among the common masses.The idea of carpe diem is what motivation leads to .Motivation is like a sine qua non without which no objectives can be achieved.the idea of ne plus ultra is what drives some ,the sense of challenging tasks ,to reach the pinnacle of excellence, what the rifraf know as perfection and the elite as way of living.motivation is to process in which we find the reasons to act in a preconcieved directed fashion.

McClelland views are not associated with some theoretical idea but rather deals with general work place environment, motivates are a result of from life's experiences .Acquired need's theory that he proposed specify individual specific needs
And most of these can be classified in terms of achievement affiliation and power
so he demarcated the
nAch need for achievement
nAff need for affiliation
nPow need for power

people with high need for achievement tend to avoid high risk and low risk situation,you may ask why so .. well cause in low risk situations there is no glory and in high risk it is control more by the roll of the dice than by the edge of the sword. Achievers tend to work alone or with other achievers.
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the need of affiliation
people with such needs conform to the norms of the group... they have acquired the need to be accepted from their past experiences in childhood or in adolescence for that mattter.. High nAff individuals prefer work that provides significant personal interaction

POWER
A person's need for power (nPow) can be one of two types - personal and institutional
Managers with a high need for institutional power tend to be more effective than those with a high need for personal power.

more on his later

Thematic Apperception Test

McClelland used the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) as a tool to measure the individual needs of different people. The TAT is a test of imagination that presents the subject with a series of ambiguous pictures, and the subject is asked to develop a spontaneous story for each picture. The assumption is that the subject will project his or her own needs into the story.

Psychologists have developed fairly reliable scoring techniques for the Thematic Apperception Test. The test determines the individual's score for each of the needs of achievement, affiliation, and power. This score can be used to suggest the types of jobs for which the person might be well suited.

Management for Dummies

hi this is for all my classmates who are bored of powerpoint presentation much like i am
i always wished to have a laptop in class i coulld type instead of writing on a silly notebook though that may not seem so possible i can definately write about the class in an informal manner.The topic covered here are various theories of motivation But learning without reason is futile,so we understand first why do we need to learn anything about.My friend majdoor would say to get marks and i accept his opinion and embark on writing on motivation
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Sociologist Abraham Maslow contributed greatly by advetising the idea of hierarchy of need
We are incapable of survival without food and water
but we can go without food for days but not water so water is higher.this is hierarchy of needs .In the same way given a choice of water and air,air has higher precedence in hierarchy.
listen to this ok you go out and find a beautiful girl so she comes in higher priority over going to the temple.This is what maslow meant by hierarchy of needs
..........well he actually said that some lower level needs are required to be satisfied before higher level needs can be satisfied
He classified that these needs fall into five categories: physiological, security, social, esteem, and self-actualization

The physiological needs-
having nutrious food ,oxygen, water, protein, salt, sugar, calcium, and other minerals and vitamins .General elemetary needs like sex! well yes you won't die without it
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The safety and security needs-
everyone requires security to function in harmony.Normal adult prerogative is have a established job, a safe neighbourhood to live ,the idea of a safe future is the chief indulgence of the masses.
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The love and belonging needs-
All of us barring the insane few need a friend .We require company when we are alone ,having a social life ,a sweetheart children effective relationships in general,even a sense of community.
again i am into those crazy books ok When was the last time you saw a beer commercial with someone drinking beer alone?
so you get the point
the point is we are social ,they wish to be appreciated and loved(whether or not that actually happens is another story).
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Esteem Needs -

There are two types of esteem needs. First is self-esteem which results from competence or mastery of a task. Second, there's the attention and recognition that comes from others. This is similar to the belongingness level, however, wanting admiration has to do with the need for power. People who have all of their lower needs satisfied, often drive very expensive cars because doing so raises their level of esteem. "Hey, look what I can afford-peon!"
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another way of looking at esteem needs
Maslow noted two versions of esteem needs, a lower one and a higher one. The lower one is the need for the respect of others, the need for status, fame, glory, recognition, attention, reputation, appreciation, dignity, even dominance. The higher form involves the need for self-respect, including such feelings as confidence, competence, achievement, mastery, independence, and freedom. Note that this is the “higher” form because, unlike the respect of others, once you have self-respect, it’s a lot harder to lose!
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He also talks about these levels in terms of homeostasis. Homeostasis is the principle by which your furnace thermostat operates: When it gets too cold, it switches the heat on; When it gets too hot, it switches the heat off. In the same way, your body, when it lacks a certain substance, develops a hunger for it; When it gets enough of it, then the hunger stops. Maslow simply extends the homeostatic principle to needs, such as safety, belonging, and esteem, that we don’t ordinarily think of in these terms.

Maslow sees all these needs as essentially survival needs. Even love and esteem are needed for the maintenance of health. He says we all have these needs built in to us genetically, like instincts. In fact, he calls them instinctoid -- instinct-like -- needs.
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Self-Actualization

The need for self-actualization is "the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming." People who have everything can maximize their potential. They can seek knowledge, peace, aesthetic experiences, self-fulfillment, oneness with God, etc. It is usually middle-class to upper-class students who take up environmental causes, join the Peace Corps, go off to a monastery, etc.
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ulysses

i thought i create a special place for you to read and listen in silence experience true life

if anyone thinks that I amn't divine
He'll get no drinks when I'm making the wine
But have to drink water and wish it were plain
That I make when wine becomes water again

will i understand what it means
and today i though understand the meaning but the essence is abstract to me

Small is beautiful

A modern economist is used to measuring the 'standard of living' by the amount of annual consumption, assuming all the time that a man who consumes more is 'better off' that a man who consumes less. A Buddhist economist would consider this approach excessively irrational: since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption. . . . The less toil there is, the more time and strength is left for artistic creativity. Modern economics, on the other hand, considers consumption to be the sole end and purpose of all economic activity."
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"It is clear, therefore, that Buddhist economics must be very different from the economics of modern materialism, since the Buddhist sees the essence of civilisation not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character. Character, at the same time, is formed primarily by a man's work. And work, properly conducted in conditions of human dignity and freedom, blesses those who do it and equally their products."
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"The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed."
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"Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful."
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"[N]o system or machinery or economic doctrine or theory stands on its own feet: it is invariably built on a metaphysical foundation, that is to say, upon man's basic outlook on life, its meaning and its purpose. I have talked about the religion of economics, the idol worship of material possessions, of consumption and the so-called standard of living, and the fateful propensity that rejoices in the fact that 'what were luxuries to our fathers have become necessities for us.'

"Systems are never more no less than incarnations of man's most basic attitudes. . . . General evidence of material progress would suggest that the modern private enterprise system is--or has been--the most perfect instrument for the pursuit of personal enrichment. The modern private enterprise system ingeniously employs the human urges of greed and envy as its motive power, but manages to overcome the most blatant deficiencies of laissez-faire by means of Keynesian economic management, a bit of redistributive taxation, and the 'countervailing power' of the trade unions.

"Can such a system conceivably deal with the problems we are now having to face? The answer is self-evident: greed and envy demand continuous and limitless economic growth of a material kind, without proper regard for conservation, and this type of growth cannot possibly fit into a finite environment. We must therefore study the essential nature of the private enterprise system and the possibilities of evolving an alternative system which might fit the new situation."

the following were excerpts from a book from E.F.Schumacher
i found the book as an alter ego for my lack of verbose expression.
The idea behind excellence is the goal we desire.The thought of reward makes us to work towards our goal.The ideas of Schumacher and so many other people reflect upon the glory of the industrial revolution,whether the sense of achievement of having machines of mass production,of having more food in our gowdowns but people dying of hunger...
more people today are withering way to the fast life dictate by the factors of conuming and living for the sole satisfaction of our urges.And even have become numb to the facts of life ,consumed by directionless greed life to most gives time to introspection when we are facing burnouts.In our motives to live we forget that we live not just satisfy our ego,but to achieve a sense of harmony that is desired.
Now it may seem this concept is utopian to most economist